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Investment Criteria
Our Key Criteria in Evaluating Prospective Investments
- Management team's ability to execute
- Must have female founder or owner and/or commit to recruiting top female talent to C-Suite and Board
- Size of the market (large or fast growing)
- Can reach $20+ million in revenues within 5 years
- Urgency of the problem to be solved ("must have" vs. "nice-to-have")
- Significant barriers to competitive entry
- High capital efficiency
- Preferred stock, Board seat
- Quality of exit plan; time expected to exit
Investment Process
- Company application and initial review by General Partner (GP)
- Company presentation(s) to Investment Committee (must yield deal champion)
- Vote by Investment Committee to move to due diligence
- Execution of term sheet
- Formation of due diligence team led by Deal Champion and sponsoring member of GP
- Completion of due diligence; memo to Investment Committee
- Vote by Investment Committee to invest
- Final decision and negotiation of final agreements by GP
- Execution of final agreements based on National Venture Capital Association terms
- Capital call to limited partners
- Wire funds